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77Sex and the City For Real: 10 Places to Meet Women in NYC
Contained herein: (i) ten recommended venues to meet and pickup women in NYC; (ii) slide show of beautiful places and beautiful women in NYC; (iii) insider's suggestions for picking up NYC women; (iv) each venue linked to Google Maps; (v) music with an NYC flavor.
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77Comparative Study of a Baroque Aria: Handel's Semele, "Where'er You Walk"
Included herein: (i) brief commentary on the structure of baroque opera; (ii) the myth of Semele; (iii) Alexander Pope's Second Pastoral whence the lyrics derive; (iv) four reditions of this transporting baroque period aria.
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81"The Unmoved-Mover" in Aristotle's Metaphysics
Book L of the Metaphysics touches upon what Aristotle calls the "Unmoved Mover." In short, this is Aristotle's conceptualization of God which is worthy of our attention both because of the inherent interest of the topic and because of the...
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73Greek History: Lesson 1--Early Greek Society: Oikos and Basileus
Included herein: (i) discussion of the pre-Classical Greek "Oikos" or household; (ii) discussion of the Greek "Basileus" or "man of influence; (iii) Greek vocabulary essential for understanding this period; (iv) rendition of early Greek music.
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73An Introduction to German Lieder: Franz Schubert and his Work
Included herein: (i) brief discussion on Romantic Period kunstlieder; (ii) ten representative lieder by Schubert for your listening pleasure; (iii) orginal German lyrics with English translation; (iv) other related instrumental tracts and a poetry reading.
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79Aristotle's Ethics and the Summum Bonum
As I mentioned in my hub on the Metaphysics, Aristotle is a friend of common sense or consensus (endoxa). He believed this to be a valid starting point for deeper inquiries into the human condition. And so,...
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62The Joys of Rich Chocolate + Chocolate Holiday Recipes
Included herein: (i) excellent youtube clip on the chocolate production--from pod to paper wrapper; (ii) my grandmother's delicious chocolate recipes, including chocolate covered strawberries, chocolate covered bananas, chocolate covered cream cheese and chocolate covered spoons; (iii) creative arrangement idea for your chocolate covered treats.
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68The Joys of Aromatic Tobacco
Contained Herein: (i) youtube segment on pipe tobacco; (ii) links to reputable sites that review pipe tobacco; (iii) links about cigars, meerschaum pipes, tobacco growing and curing; (iv) my own tobacco reviews of G.L. Pease's Charing Cross, McClelland's Bombay Extra, Captain Black, Edgeworth, Sail and Sir Walter Raleigh.
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71Bach's Brandenburg Concerti I, II and III, BWV 1046-1048
Herein: (i) brief background commentary on the concerti; (ii) youtube clips of the first three concerti; (iii) brief commentary on each movement of the first three concerti; (iv) recommended books and recordings.
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54Why Republicans are OUTSMARTING Obama
Some say the Republican party is obsolete and must "re-invent" itself. This is a recipe for catastrope. The only re-inventing that needs to occur is a return to conservative principles. To the extent...
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